Moffat Academy, Academy Road

John R Hill, 1932 with 1958 and several later additions. 2-storey, 15-bay, piend-roofed, prominently sited school with abstracted classical detailing to symmetrical front elevation. Advanced 3-bay end pavilions and slightly advanced 3-bay central section with small pediment. Later 20th century additions to sides and rear. Polished red sandstone ashlar dressings and squared, snecked whinstone; red brick to rear. Red sandstone base course to ground floor windows; horizontal band of grey whinstone between ground and 1st floor windows; projecting 1st floor window cills; eaves cornice;blocking course to end pavilions. Channelled ashlar pilaster quoins; regular fenestration divided by sandstone piers; at centre, end pavilions and side elevations these break whinstone band to form giant pilasters.

SIDES AND REAR: 5-bay entrance elevations to E and W elevations; central pedimented entrance bay with corniced door architrave rising up to 1st floor window; regular fenestration to each side; E elevation partially obscured by later white-rendered addition. Irregularly fenestrated red brick N (rear) elevation with a number of later flat-roofed additions adjoining.

Small-pane glazing in timber-framed windows with tilting upper lights. Graded grey slate roof with metal flashings. Cast-iron rainwater goods with reeded hoppers.

INTERIOR: sliding half-glazed timber-panelled interior doors to S-facing classrooms. Tongue and groove panelling to dado of corridors and, staircases and classrooms. Plain timber balusters to staircases. Some original cloakroom fittings. Fitted gymnasium. 1964 mural in main hall by A Little, A Cockayne, A Dempster and A McNeil

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: probably later 19th century. Coped snecked sandstone boundary wall with later railings between intermittent piers. Stop-chamfered pyramidal-capped gatepiers to S of school.